Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the program, which former President Barack Obama created in 2012, would be “rescinded” and that Congress has six months to provide a legislative fix.

The program shields from deportation young immigrants commonly known as “Dreamers” who were brought into the U.S. illegally as children. California has 200,000 DACA recipients, the most of any state.

Shortly after Sessions said the program would be rescinded, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said in a statement, “President Trump’s decision to end DACA is a deeply shameful act of political cowardice and a despicable assault on innocent young people in communities across America.”

Pelosi called on Republican leaders in both the House and Senate to bring a bill to the floor.

Senator Kamala Harris (D-California) called the decision “heartless” and said, “By turning his back on our young Dreamers and their families, President Trump has once again sided with division and hate.”

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California) reiterated Congress must act, saying, “Failure to protect young people who have come out of the shadows would constitute an abject moral failure.”

Feinstein also had a message to DACA recipients, saying, ” I say this is not over. I stand with you and your families. You are valued. Our country needs you. And I won’t stop fighting to protect you.”

Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose) said, “The impetus for the President’s action seems just as clear: an extremist, racist agenda…Once again, President Trump seems to bend to the will of extremists rather than mainstream Americans, just as he did while condoning white supremacists in Charlottesville.”

Rep. Ro Khanna (D), who also represents San Jose in Congress, said, “Today, the Trump Administration once again shows it has no dignity for our friends, neighbors, and colleagues.”

The move to end the program has also been widely condemned by leaders of Silicon Valley tech companies.

“This is a sad day for our country,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement on his page. “It is particularly cruel to offer young people the American Dream, encourage them to come out of the shadows and trust our government, and then punish them for it.”

Zuckerberg, along with Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai were among 400 executives who urged in a letter last week to Trump to preserve the DACA program.

Of course the CEOs want DACA. That program represents a lot of cheap labor. Cheap restaurant workers, cheap construction workers, cheap janitors etc. Hey mayor Lee, if you really want to help hispanics and other minorities, why don’t you help promote housing in San Francisco for lower and middle class families. Quit pleasuring real estate developers that would rather turn San Francisco into the “city in the clouds” for only the wealthy.